I'm looking for a series that has the MC losing his power and getting a newer better one. For example he could have his power stolen, or he could end up rejecting his current power because he doesn't like where it came from or where it leads, or he realizes it was a mistake to go down the path he went, or he has to give it up to save someone, etc.... it can be any reason. And then after he gives up his power his struggle down his new path leads and it him to a better understanding of things and towards higher heights, and has him becoming stronger. I can only think of one example. Second Life Ranker - Spoiler I read that Yeon-woo ends up rejecting the system and the black king and forgoes everything he earned. Only to start again to re-learn and re-earn everything on his own again this time being outside of the constraints of the system.
The Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich Spoiler: He restarted 2 times For the first time he changed from holy knight to ice and undead mage, second time he changed to the power of law from what I remember.
Already read Overgeared. But she is not the MC, so its a no bueno for me. Thank you for suggesting though. Thanks, I'll give this a look. Edit: I guess two other examples I can think of are Peerless Martial God 1 - Spoiler MC can't ascend past a certain point, so he has to do things in a different way, and follow a different path (not what I'm looking for exactly but kind of works) Peerless Martial God 2 - Spoiler MC gets his body stolen but realizes there is another path and makes a new and better body (quickly forgotten about though) Just some other examples to kind of give a better idea. Dream scenario would be. MC hits a wall or gets his power stolen, so he has to rebuild from scratch starting at zero and once he does he gets stronger/passes the pervious wall he hit.
World’s Best Martial Artist It is a major spoiler so I will put a tab. Spoiler so during the whole process of getting stronger, everyone will go through the process of Dao, as in their entire life experience and mindset will be converted into some form of an ethereal pathway to the heavens to gain multiplier to their own strength. Also, each and every dao is unique but they ultimately will converge into one another. For the record, the weaker ones will get devoured. So in the story, the old War King (武王) wanted the MC to be the new human representive as MC being MC, levels up to a high level cultivator in a span of three years when it takes normal people hundreds of years and have the guy cultivating a human emperor path. Throughout the plot, the MC benefits from the path as his is the biggest of all them all and technically there are only two people walking down the same dao/ path; him and War King. If you are wondering, yes, MC's path is eating into WK's. During a climax, WK plans to sacrifice his path to further MC's growth, but instead MC rips his own path, destroying the multiplier and shoves it down the old WK, giving him the strength to survive the onslaught. Fyi, MC ended up cultivating a Dao world, a self sustainable world that is currently used by the heavenly emperor (天帝) and yes, the thing at its half potential provides MC an endless supply of power to crush all his oppositions.
Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint this one has it happen a few times where he rejects a lot of super op(at a glance) powers because he wants to tread his own path. I cant post a link to it but if you search it up you can easily find it Edit: he also loses a lot of his power and has to regain it but comes back stronger, so i think its a perfect fir for what you wanted
This one half fits your request Emperor's Domination MC restarts his cultivation multiple times. In his words, you can do more with a blank piece of paper than one with a manificent painting on it. Something along those lines.
Taming Master - MC resets his VMMO character back to level 1 so he could change to a newly released Class.
King of Gods Spoiler guy with eye powers gets hunted because of it and eventually loses his body and takes over a dead body and recultivates from scratch in a better way. Emperor's domination Spoiler mc recultivated multiple times each time becoming stronger and with a better system. The latest time he recultivates he basically became the strongest being in the universe a peak psudeo immortal, and again destroys his body to open a new epoch which allows him to set the rules for cultivating for the following epoch and also to open a new page for the various heavenly scriptures and treasures so that he can take them further.
Thank you. It is this series, right? https://www.novelupdates.com/series/worlds-best-martial-artist/ Will give this a go. Thank you. Is this translated? Last I read of this it had like 15 chapters and no one was translating it. Thank you. This also sounds like a good rec. Already read this, thanks. With the exception of the start of the story, the MC is pretty much the strongest outside of heaven. Thanks for rec'ing though. I'm not a fan of VMMO novels. Outside of Overgeared I don't think I will ever read another one. Thanks for the rec though. King of god's sounds excellent. Almost what I exactly want. I already read ED, thanks though.
Yeah, it is a fun read, though I have to admit, some of the text walls I ended up skipping and had to backtrack from time to time to know who the MC had just killed. I never ask why though, cuz it is simple, they are the enemies, go kill them.